Jumpers for Goalposts 4

Football and volley games form an extremely significant proportion of the sports-based flash game market. Management titles such as New Star Soccer and more light-hearted takes on the gamesuch as Sports Heads: Football show the variety of forms a football game can take. Jumpers for Goalposts 4, besides from being a clever play on words and also a reference to a play of the same name is a football management simulator that allows you to follow the career of an amateur footballer from being signed to playing for some of the best teams in the world. The management aspects of your career are also interspersed with training to develop your skills. These skills are used at critical points in actual matches that are otherwise played out through running commentary.

The aim of the game is simply to get your player signed and rise as far towards the top of football success and stardom as is possible. Your career progresses over a finite number of years and begins with refining each of the eight types of skill. These include volleys, headers, free kicks, and penalties and have the same sort of simple challenges as the rugby kicking flash games at ruckingrugby.com. Starting with no skill points at all, you must earn them through successful completion of each skill set. You will be offered a contract whose monetary worth and reputation of club it comes from depends on how well you have performed your skills. After being signed, the main entertainment of the game begins.

After being signed, you simply have to play through the season by continuing to engage in practising your skills (increasing their individual score as you do so) and entering into matches. The match play facet of the game’s entertainment doesn’t take place with real-time action on the football pitch but instead unfolds in the form of written commentary, with control of the game’s potential goal-scoring moments handed over to you when a chance arises. The parts of the match you get to control will be one of the eight skills you have been practising, allowing you to take the ball and potentially win the match for your team.

As well as focusing on your skill points, an important part of your career is also to ensure that the media like you. Hiring better agents is one of the main ways to improve your image and also negotiate better contracts with other clubs so that you can move on to bigger and better wages playing for more notorious teams. Your image is also improved by purchasing property, cars, and other items as well as going out and socialising to meet girls. You can end up going through a string of girlfriends in the game, ending with a tennis coach once you reach the height of your stardom.

Jumpers for Goalposts 4 isn’t the best football management game out there, but it certainly has some serious potential for addiction, as well as a charm that keeps you coming back for more. The management aspect of the game can get a bit repetitive, but the satisfaction of refining your skills and moving up from zero to hero is too great to ignore.